Faintness

Quick meaning: Faintness is a noun meaning The property of being or feeling faint.

Meaning

The property of being or feeling faint.

Example Sentences

The humming sound and the unvarying white light induced a sort of faintness, an empty feeling inside his head.

And he first took exceptions at this badge, / Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower / Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.

The confusion, in which impressions are sometimes involved, proceeds only from their faintness and unsteadiness, not from any capacity in the mind to receive any impression, which in its real existence has no particular degree nor proportion.

The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago.

Word Forms

• faintnesses

Synonyms for faintness

Depending on context, synonyms include faintheartedness, dimness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dimness, timidity, faintingness, faint-heartedness, feebleness, lightheadedness.

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